Album: Harper Valley PTA
Written by: Tom T. Hall
Harper Valley PTA Jeannie C. Riley
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I want to tell you all a story 'bout a Harper Valley widowed wife
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Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High
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Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play
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She said Mom I got a note here from the Harper Valley P.T.A.
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The note said Misses Johnson, you're wearing your dresses way too high
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It's reported you've been drinking and a runnin' round with men and going wild
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And we don't believe you ought to be a bringing up your little girl this way
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It was signed by the secretary, Harper Valley P.T.A.
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Well, it happened that the P.T.A. was gonna meet that very afternoon
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They were sure surprised when Misses Johnson wore her miniskirt into the room
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And as she walked up to the blackboard I still recall the words she had to say
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She said, I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley P.T.A.
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Well there's Bobby Taylor, sitting there and seven times he's asked me for a
date
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Misses Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he's away
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And Mister Baker can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town
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And shouldn't Widow Jones be told to keep her window shades all pulled
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completely down?
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Well Mister Harper couldn't be here 'cause he stayed to long at Kelly's Bar
again
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And if you smell Shirley Tompson's breath you'll find she's had a little nip
of gin
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Then you have the nerve to tell me you think that as a mother I'm not fit
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Well this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Harper Valley
hypocrites.
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No, I wouldn't put you on because it really did , it happend just this way
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The day my Mama socked it to the Harper Valley P.t.A.
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The day my Mama socked it to the Harper Valley P.T.A.
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